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Message-ID: <20101031023521.GA7685@openwall.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:35:21 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: custom builds
Robert, Erik, all -
I finally got around to propagating the custom builds that were
initially uploaded to:
http://openwall.info/wiki/john/custom-builds
to the following somewhat more official places:
http://download.openwall.net/pub/projects/john/contrib/win32/
http://download.openwall.net/pub/projects/john/contrib/macosx/
http://download.openwall.net/pub/projects/john/contrib/linux/
http://download.openwall.net/pub/projects/john/contrib/solaris/
I've created/edited README.txt files in the above directories
accordingly. All of this is getting propagated to the many mirrors:
http://www.openwall.com/mirrors/
I've added direct download links for the Win32 and Mac OS X builds to:
http://www.openwall.com/john/#contrib
Finally, here's some feedback on the builds themselves (note: I never
ran them, but I looked at the files inside the archives):
Robert - I'd be nice to create a single ZIP archive that will include
the required cygz.dll file. This will save a line on the JtR homepage.
The archive filename can be made shorter. I suggest that instead of
john-1.7.6-jumbo-7-netscreen-script-2.04-sha1_gen-1-win32.zip (and the
like) you use something like john-1.7.6-jumbo-7-rs904c-1.zip (where "1"
will be your own revision number). Then you can have a README.txt file
inside the archive, which will explain what patches are included, etc.
In the builds for 32-bit x86, the SSE2-enabled build should be made the
primary one in some way - perhaps it should be called just "john",
whereas the MMX build should be made slightly harder to use inadvertently -
I suggest placing it in john-ancient-computer.zip inside the main archive.
A plain 386 build is probably no longer needed at all, or you may similarly
add it to the extra archive. (Somehow people tend to use 386 and MMX
builds not realizing that they should be using SSE2.) This applies to
all of: Win32, Linux, Solaris (but use .tar.gz rather than .zip on Linux
and Solaris).
Robert - it is great that you've renamed the documentation files to have
the .txt suffix on Win32, but perhaps it's better not to do that in your
Linux and Solaris builds.
Robert - JFYI, your full static linking on Linux makes your build
require a Linux 2.6+ kernel. This is probably a non-issue for almost
all users, though: whoever still runs Linux 2.4 should have no problem
building John from source. There's a way to avoid this (I am avoiding
it in JtR Pro with hybrid static/dynamic linking), but let's not bother.
Erik - your john-1.7.6-jumbo-7-macosx-universal-2.zip extracts to a
directory named john-1.7.6-jumbo-7-macosx-universal-1 (not -2), which is
a bit confusing. Then, README.macosx says "There's currently no
up-to-date documentation." I think this phrase is a remnant from your
builds of 1.6.x versions of JtR. The documentation actually looks up to
date, and it's updated in jumbo-7 accordingly to that patch's changes.
Thank You!
Alexander
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